I'm still working on this, about 30 hours in. I'm not sure what it is about Namco always making the Tales games about warring kingdoms [at least from the start], but they should try the textbook "big baddy wants to destroy the world", with the start of the game the world being under this monsters oppression to begin with.
I've got enough CC to not be a pissed off as I was about the battle system, but it still annoys me that I still need to use CC to just move around the battlefield. That was all part of my Tales strategy, run around the enemy and attack it from behind. Now I just run up to it, whack it, then dodge my way around.
I love Pascal.
And I'll say one thing "Royal crablettes..."